The most prosperous places to find meteorites is Antarctica, which have contributed over 66% of the world’s classified meteorite samples.
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Talk Outline
The ‘Lost Meteorites of Antarctica Project’ is the first UK-led Antarctic meteorite recovery project. With support from the British Antarctic Survey we explored new Meteorite Stranding Zones in Antarctica to search for meteorites encapsulated within ice. I will talk about our project’s motivation, the highs and lows of the field campaign, and some meteorite finds.
About the Speaker
Katherine Joy is a Royal Society University Research Fellow based at the University of Manchester. She works with Apollo and lunar meteorite samples to understand the Moon’s geological history. She has twice joined the US Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) programme, spending field season’s on the ice collecting meteorite, and is the meteorite lead for the UK-led Lost Meteorites of Antarctica project.
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